Anaesthesia, surgery, and life-threatening allergic reactions: management and outcomes in the 6th National Audit Project (NAP6) N.J.N. Harper et al. Anaphylaxis, a life threatening allergic reaction, is thankfully rare but a very serious complication in the perioperative period, around the time of surgery. The 6th National Audit Project of the Royal College of Anaesthetists (NAP6)…

Association between intraoperative opioid administration and 30-day readmission: a pre-specified analysis of registry data from a healthcare network in New England High intraoperative opioid dose is a modifiable anaesthetic factor that varies in the practice of individual anaesthetists and affects postoperative outcomes. Conservative standards for intraoperative opioid dosing may reduce the risk of postoperative readmission,…

Steroids in cardiac surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis BJA April 2018, Volume 120, Pages 657-667. See full article here: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29576107 Join in the debate: contact@topmedtalk.com Don’t forget to come and meet the TopMedTalk team at one of the EBPOM events, details on the forthcoming London meeting can be found here: https://ebpom.org/EBPOM2018 Check out this episode!

Should continuous rather than single-injection interscalene block be routinely offered for major shoulder surgery? A meta-analysis of the analgesic and side-effects profiles. Br J Anaesth. 2018 Apr;120(4):679-692. See full article here: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bja.2017.11.104 Check out this episode!